Anand Sinha
Anand Sinha is Deputy Governor in Reserve Bank of India where he is in-charge of
regulation of commercial banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies and Urban
Cooperative Banks. His other responsibilities include, among others, Information
Technology. He has been closely associated with the banking sector reforms in India.
He has represented the Reserve Bank of India in various Committees/Groups of BIS
such as Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), Policy Development Group
(PDG), Macro Prudential Supervision Group (MPG), Macro Variable Task Force (MVTF)
and Committee on Global Financial Systems (CGFS). He represented India on the G20
Working Group on Enhancing Sound Regulation & Strengthening Transparency. He is
the Chairman, Governing Council of the Institute for Development and Research in
Banking Technology (IDRBT), a research and development institution on financial
sector technology, set up by the Reserve Bank of India. He is also a member on the
Board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Mr. Sinha holds Masters Degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), New Delhi.
E-mail ID: anandsinha@rbi.org.in
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Harun R Khan
Harun R. Khan is one of the four Deputy Governors of the Reserve Bank of India.
His current responsibilities include departments dealing with forex reserve management,
foreign exchange, internal debt management, development & regulation of government
securities market, payment and settlement system, internal inspection and security,
government & bank accounts.
He is Reserve Bank’s representative on the Committee on Global Financial System
(CGFS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
He also represents the Reserve Bank of India on the Boards of two apex financial
institutions in the country - the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) and the National Housing Bank (NHB). He has chaired a number of Committees/Groups
including the Internal Group on Rural Credit and Microfinance which recommended
the expansion of banking outreach through the Business Facilitators & Business Correspondents
for scaling up the bank-led ICT – supported financial inclusion in India.
E-mail ID: hrkhan@rbi.org.in
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G Padmanabhan
G Padmanabhan, is Executive Director in the Reserve Bank of India, with over 30
years experience in various capacities in the Bank.
His areas of work experience include regulation and supervision of the foreign exchange
market in India, payment and settlements and debt markets. He drove IT initiatives
in the Reserve Bank for over three years during which time several important projects
fructified the most important being the state of the art Tier IV data centre of
the Bank. Before being elevated to his present post, he also headed the Department
of Payment and Settlement Systems in the Bank. Under his initiative, the country
saw the introduction of a wide range of new payment systems products like pre-paid
cards, m-wallets etc. Alongside, the country took pioneering efforts in improving
the security of payment transactions particularly over the internet.
He has been a panel member at many of the Seminars on market issues organized in
India and a regular guest speaker at many of the training establishments run by
the Reserve Bank/ Commercial Banks. He is representative of Reserve Bank of India
on the Committee for Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) in Bank for International
Settlements, Basle. Presently, he is the Chairman of the CPSS Working Group on Non-Banks
in Retail Payments.
He is a post graduate in Economics, holds a Masters degree in Business Administration
from the Birmingham University and is an Alumnus of the Kellogg Business School.
E-mail ID: gpadmanabhan@rbi.org.in
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Marc Bayle
Marc Bayle is the Target2-Securities (T2S) Programme Manager and Principal Adviser
at the European Central Bank. The work of the ECB’s team consists of the overall
management and coordination of the project, as well as the provision of support
to the work of the T2S Board. It also includes more technical matters such as compiling
the user requirements, designing the operational framework, testing and migration
strategies, maintaining relations with central securities depositories (CSDs) and
users, providing advice on all legal issues and preparing the contractual agreements.
Marc Bayle is the Chairman of the Project Managers Group (PMG) - a composition of
project managers from various Euro and non-Euro Central Banks - that reports to
the T2S Board and provides the Currency Steering Groups with regular updates on
its work.
In his previous roles, he has managed dossiers related to the promotion of market
integration and the definition of the Eurosystem’s operational framework, focusing
in particular on payment systems and market infrastructure aspects. He has authored
publications on the market infrastructure integration process and on related issues,
such as the Euro repo market.
Before joining the ECB, he has worked for ten years at SICOVAM S.A. (now Euroclear
France) as Adviser to senior management. He has a Master’s degree in Finance, CERAM
having specialised in audit and post-market infrastructure.
E-mail ID: marc.bayle@ecb.int
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Stephen Lindsay
Stephen Peter Lindsay is the Head of the SWIFT Standards department, which is responsible
for the maintenance of the SWIFT MT standard, ISO 15022, and SWIFT-submitted ISO
20022 messages. SWIFT Standards also operates the registration authority (RA) for
ISO 20022, and several other ISO standards including ISO 15022, ISO 9362 (BIC),
ISO 10383 (MIC) and ISO 13616 (IBAN).
He joined Swift in 2007, having spent the previous 20 years at Misys Banking Systems
working on financial messaging and payments software.
Stephen Lindsay is an active blogger, blogging about SWIFT and other financial industry
standards.
E-mail ID:Stephen.LINDSAY@swift.com
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Daso Maranhao Coimbra
Daso Coimbra is the Head of the Department of Banking Operations and Payment System
at the Banco Central do Brasil, the Brazilian Central Bank. He has been with Banco
Central do Brasil for the last 36 years, most of them at the International Reserves
Operations Department, where he was the Head of Department from 1999 to 2006.
He is a non-voting member of the Brazilian Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) for
10 years and the Brazilian Central Bank representative at the Basel Committee on
Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) at the Bank for International Settlements.
His present responsibilities include the Discount Window and Reserve Requirement
operations, the supervision of the Brazilian Payments System, and the oversight
of the Financial Markets Infrastructures and retail payments operations.
E-mail ID: daso@bcb.gov.br
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Edward Leach
Edward Leach is the Head of Operations in the National Payment System Department
at the South African Reserve Bank. In his previous assignments, he has also functioned
as the Head of Africa South at SWIFT.
At the South African Reserve Bank, two of his major functions are:
1. The operations of the SAMOS system (South Africa domestic
RTGS system); and
2. The SADC regionalisation project including the operations
of SIRESS (SADC Integrated Regional Electronic Settlement System) the SADC regional
RTGS system.
E-mail ID: Edward.leach@resbank.co.za
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Jochen Metzger
Jochen Erich Metzger is Head of the Department Payments and Settlement Systems at
the Deutsche Bundesbank. He holds a Master degree in economics from the University
of Mannheim.
He represents the Bundesbank at the Eurosystems Payments and Settlement Systems
Committee (PSSC) and the Target 2 Securities Advisory Group—the G20-Committee on
Payments and Settlement Systems— and is the Responsible Senior Officer for cooperative
oversight of CLS. Since May 2009, Jochen has been a Member of the TARGET2-Securities
Programme Board.
Jochen Metzger has been a member of the Bundesbank’s staff since 1988 and previously
held positions in the markets, payments and infrastructure areas of the Bank. He
has also served as the Bundesbank Representative for Latin America at the German
Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Senior Policy Advisor
and member of the secretariat of the Financial Stability Forum at the BIS in Basel.
E-mail ID: jochen.metzger@bundesbank.de
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A S Ramasastri
Dr Ramasastri is the Chief General Manager in Charge of Department of Information
Technology at Reserve Bank of India. He has spearheaded some of the important initiatives
like XBRL standards for data reporting from commercial banks to Reserve Bank of
India as well as automated data flow. He has been guiding the project on the new
RTGS project in India, right from approach paper to implementation. He has led the
team towards implementation of ISO 20022 standards for new RTGS.
Dr Ramasastri holds a Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has been
working in Reserve Bank of India for more than three decades. He has authored several
articles and books in the area of IT, banking and finance. One of his books is translated
into Chinese.
E-mail ID: asramasastri@rbi.org.in
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A K Hirve
Dr. A. K. Hirve is the Chief General Manager, Department of Information Technology,
Reserve Bank of India.
E-mail ID: akhirve@rbi.org.in
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Anil Kumar Sharma
Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma is a General Manager in Department of Information Technology
in Reserve Bank of India where he is in-charge of Payment Systems Application Division.
He has been closely associated with the implementation of ISO 20022 messaging standards
in Next-Generation Real-Time Gross Settlement System (NG-RTGS) in India. He is also
a Principal member of the Software and Systems Engineering Sectional Committee,
which is responsible for preparation of Indian Standards relating to processes,
supporting tools and supporting technologies for the engineering of software products
and systems and Interoperable Distributed Application Platforms and Services including
Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Cloud Computing.
Dr. Sharma holds Ph.D. in Economics from Mumbai University and M.Phil. and Masters
Degree in Statistics from University of Delhi.
E-mail ID: anilksharma@rbi.org.in
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